The Decolonisation of Africa
Explore The Decolonisation of Africa on Ever-When, an interactive timeline of history from the Big Bang to the present day.
Key events on this timeline
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Ghanaian independence (1957)
- Algerian War of Independence (1954)
- Year of Africa (1960)
- Congo Crisis / Assassination of Lumumba (1960)
- The Organisation of African Unity founded (1963)
- Wind of Change speech (1960)
- Portugal's African empire ends (1975)
- Algerian independence (1962)
- Mau Mau uprising (1952)
- Biafra War (1967)
- Nigerian independence (1960)
- Zimbabwe independence (1980)
- Decolonisation of Africa begins (1957)
- Jomo Kenyatta becomes Kenya's first president (1964)
- Decolonisation of Africa ends (1980)
- Independence of Morocco and Tunisia (1956)
- Independence of Sudan (1956)
- Carnation Revolution (1974)
- Toussaint Rouge (1954)
- Premiership of Patrice Lumumba (1960)
- Nkrumah's leadership of Ghana (1957)
- Pan-African Congresses (1919)